Chad president pardons Zoe’s Ark aid workers

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Six French aid workers will soon be released from prison near Paris after Idriss D?by the President of Chad today pardoned them for the planned abduction of children in the so-called Zoe’s Ark affair last October.

The six were detained on October 25 as they were about to put the children on a French-bound flight from the main eastern Chad town of Abeche, across the border from Darfur. Most of the children destined illegally for foster care in France turned out to be Chadian, not war refugees, and to have at least one living parent.